A month ago I went to install boot camp and ran into some serious problems. There are lots of Apple Support Discussions about people running into similar problems that I ran into. It was sad, but I didn’t need windows that much, so I just waited until I had sometime during easter weekend. In the past before Leopard and Time Machine, I would do backups with
Superduper!. This made hard drive crashes and recovery stuff simple with exact copies of my drive. This time though, I decided to chance it and restore from Time Machine.
Restoring went very smoothly, I was very impressed. Took sometime, not any longer than I expected though. I did run into one issue which had me panicking. This was when I first tried restore it failed to recognize my internal laptop hard drive. After a reboot back into the Leopard Install DVD, I tried again, it worked fine. The only “down time” other than the restore time was having to reinstall cisco VPN client, which was broken for some reason.
After getting bootcamp up, I don’t know what I expected, but getting to use windows isn’t really exciting. I even downloaded trial version of fusion and use virtualization off my bootcamp drive. I use windows here and there for IE and Visual Studios.